Function and Responsibilities:

• Guest Researcher

Research Interests:

• Variscan high-pressure continental rocks: provenance, evolution, plate tectonics
• Variscan mantle rocks and metaophiolites: evolution, exhumation, plate tectonics
• Variscan mid-/upper crust: provenance, stratigraphy, evolution, plate tectonics
• Variscan gravitational nappe units: geochemical signature, evolution, emplacement
• Syn- to post-Variscan sedimentation: detritus provenance and age, plate tectonics
• Variscan stratabound magnetite deposits: origin and evolution
• Neoproterozoic and younger evolution in the Beaver terrane, Antarctic

Career:

• 1985-1989: Res. and Teaching Assistant, Inst. of Geol., Freiberg Univ. of Mining and Technology, Germany
• 1989-1991: Researcher, Central Institute for Physics of the Earth, Potsdam, Germany
• 1989-1990: Guest Researcher, 35th Soviet Antarctic Expedition
• 1992-1994: Researcher, German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Dept. Geomaterials
• 1995         : Guest Researcher, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
• 1996-2000: Researcher, German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Dept. Geomaterials
• 2000-2009: Researcher, Inst. of Earth Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany
• 2010-2024: Researcher, German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Dept. Geochemistry
• 2024-        : Guest Researcher, German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Dept. Geochemistry

Education:

• 1985: Diploma Geology, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany
• 1989: Ph.D. Geology, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany

Projects:

• 1989: Crustal evolution in the northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica, team members N.D. Aleksashin, N.N. Krasnikov, A.A. Laiba, A.I. Melnikov
• 1994: Frankenberg nappe stack, Germany: petrogenesis and geodynamics, team members D.A. Carswell, H. Gerstenberger, G. Haase
• 1996: Saxon Granulite Massif, Germany: mineral thermobarometry and O-isotope thermometry, team members B. Hagen, S. Hoernes
• 1997: Age and kinematics of crustal-scale shear zones: exhumation in the Saxon Granulite Complex, team members H. Kemnitz, R.L. Romer
• 2000: Research drillholes Tirschheim and Schweikershain, Germany: exhumation in the Saxon Granulite Complex, team members H. Budzinski, R. Oberhänsli, R.L. Romer
• 2011: Architecture and evolution of collisional orogens: U-Pb and Ar-Ar dating of Variscan metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, team members J. Bek, B. Gaitzsch, R. Oberhänsli, M.J. Timmerman
• 2018: Ultrahigh-pressure rocks of the Erzgebirge: petrology, micro-Raman-spectroscopy, and geochronology, with implications for the tectono-metamorphic evolution, team members M.J. Timmerman, R. Thomas
• 2021: Prismatine at Waldheim, Germany: re-examination of a classic locality and its implications for the metamorphic evolution of the Saxon Granulite Complex, team members A. Borghini, S. Ferrero, E. Grew, M. Wilke, M.G. Yates
• 2025: B-Li enriched granulites in the Saxon Granulite Complex, Germany: origin and evolution, team members A. Borghini, S. Ferrero, E. Grew, A. Meixner, A. Pack, M. G. Yates

Research Boards and Committees:

• 1997-2000: Committee Member, Metamorphic Studies Group, Geol. and Mineral. Soc., UK